Ivan Lendl will attempt to qualify for the 78th Connecticut Open at the
Shuttle Meadow Country Club over the next two days in what has been his home
state for the past 25 years. He played three days of golf in a row last week
for the first time in two months, which should, he hopes, have ironed enough
of the rough edges from his game to do himself justice.

In the first five days after the Wimbledon final, Andy Murray’s coach left him
alone, something he rectified over the weekend, though the substance of
their discussion remained strictly private,